One of the most encouraging trends of 2025 was the continued parade of ribbons being cut around sparkling new sports facilities. The Long Beach Unified School District\u2019s two construction bonds, approved by Long Beach voters, yielded new aquatic centers at Wilson and Lakewood as well as a new football stadium at Jordan, with more improvements on the way in 2026. Compton Unified\u2019s brand new Compton High also opened in 2025.<\/p>\n
Jordan<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming,\u201d Long Beach Jordan principal Keisha Irving-Holder said about the Panthers\u2019 brand new stadium. \u201cAnd the North Long Beach community deserves this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jordan was the last campus to get their football field redone in the LBUSD, but it has one unique feature that differs from the rest of the district\u2019s stadiums: a blue field.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis field, it\u2019s more than a field,\u201d LBUSD superintendent Jill Baker said. It\u2019s a huge commitment to the North Long Beach community that really builds on a lot of the district\u2019s efforts to elevate and uplift the North Long Beach community. It stands as a beacon of what we believe in the North Long Beach community. It\u2019s more than a field.\u00a0 It\u2019s our commitment to both excellence and equity for our students and actually for the community at large.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Panthers also got a new video scoreboard as part of their upgrade.<\/p>\n
New Pools<\/p>\n
Wilson and Lakewood\u2019s new pools have drawn rave reviews from athletes and coaches, and have helped spark further interest in the schools\u2019 aquatic programs. Wilson\u2019s girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 water polo teams were both Open Division caliber squads in 2025 with several Division 1 signees each.<\/p>\n
Compton<\/p>\n
After years of hosting students at nearby Roosevelt Middle School, a brand new state-of-the-art Compton High opened this Fall. The campus features a brand new football stadium, weight room, and training facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything is better than a middle school,\u201d football player Cash Maluia said. \u201cWe got a new weight room and field \u2013 it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most encouraging trends of 2025 was the continued parade of ribbons being cut around sparkling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-114044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}